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Published inJan 2011
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ISBN-139781849681087
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Peter Serzo
Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Performing a site collection backup


The next three recipes showcase SharePoint 2010's integrated granular backup and restore capability.

One content database can contain several site collections. As the amount of data grows in an organization, the content database grows quickly, along with the value of the information in a site collection. It is the administrator's job to monitor this growth and ensure the data is backed up at regular intervals.

There is a chance that the database either grows too large or someone needs something restored from a particular site collection.

To reduce the size of the content database, the administrator can split off the information by site collection. Splitting off the information by site collection, and parsing it out to another physical content database, reduces the size of the existing content database.

The other condition entails restoring the whole content database from a backup. However, this is quite painful for every site collection in that content database...

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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